ACEP elects new officers
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has installed a new president and elected a new president-elect during the organization's annual meeting in New Orleans. Brian Keaton, MD, FACEP, of Akron, OH, assumed the presidency, and Linda L. Lawrence, MD, FACEP, of Fairfield, CA, has been elected president-elect.
Keaton is an attending physician, director of emergency medical informatics, and core faculty for the emergency medicine residency program at Summa Health System in Akron. He has worked at the national and state levels to improve quality of patient care through technology and the development of a nationwide health information network. Keaton was appointed by Mike Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to serve as a member of the bio-surveillance workgroup of the American Health Information Community. That community is a task force focused on developing a national strategy for using health care data to detect, manage, and minimize the impact of events such as pandemic flu and bioterrorism events.
Lawrence has served as vice president of ACEP and is chief of medical staff for David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, CA, and an attending physician in the Emergency Department at the medical center. In addition, she serves as a consultant to the U.S. Air Force surgeon general.
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has installed a new president and elected a new president-elect during the organization's annual meeting in New Orleans. Brian Keaton, MD, FACEP, of Akron, OH, assumed the presidency, and Linda L. Lawrence, MD, FACEP, of Fairfield, CA, has been elected president-elect.You have reached your article limit for the month. Subscribe now to access this article plus other member-only content.
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